jwmurphy
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murphytweets.bsky.social
Prediction: Reform will collapse in an election cycle when all parties are given equal coverage and actually properly scrutinised. There will also be an organised ‘anyone but’ tactical vote. Progressive coalition the outcome. #r4today
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happytoast.co.uk
Don't forget Eurotrash tonight on talking pictures. Set a tape.
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
murphytweets.bsky.social
And so it begins
catneilan.bsky.social
Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

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Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK
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emilybell.bsky.social
They are already hallucinatory, often racist, damaging to the environment and confidently wrong on even the most basic questions ….making them *more* magacentric might be hard…
hypervisible.blacksky.app
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
murphytweets.bsky.social
Worth booking if you want to dine around pre/post theatre times as opposite Young Vic.
murphytweets.bsky.social
Brexshit passports v2
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danneidle.bsky.social
Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
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jayrayner1.bsky.social
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
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atrupar.com
Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
murphytweets.bsky.social
How the heck do you turn off these eBay live notifications - it’s like whack a mole - thought I’d cracked it and they still keep coming back!
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent
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direthoughts.com
bring on the EuroSausage! welcome to the Emulsified High-Fat Plant-Based Tube
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adambienkov.bsky.social
"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?
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samfr.bsky.social
Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.
sgfmann.bsky.social
The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday
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samfr.bsky.social
I just have no idea who the Tories think the audience is for full bore authoritarianism plus austerity. Very few who want the former want the latter.
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gatopaulistano.bsky.social
Spend a bit more on the NHS
Taxes have to go up a bit
EU membership, in due course
Aging population - fix social care
Defence spending proportionate to threat level
Young people to have apprenticeships or go to university
Once a week bin collection
Nuclear and renewables
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Right, that's it. I'm founding a new populist party of the centre called Go Outside!
peterwalker99.bsky.social
The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]
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ianboudreau.com
I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks